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...complacency comes too easily. In the blood of the martyrs grow the seedlings that become the oaken beams of the church; if we remember Che even here in Cambridge, then maybe we can remember the injustices and contradictions that thread our country and the world. Perhaps in our righteous anger we will do something for the hungry, sick and numbed people of the world that extends beyond Currier and past Mather, the people who never join in the dance that begins each day in front of the steps of Widener...
...whom turn out to be only latent unbelievers who often express a certain longing for faith. By far the largest group is the Publicans, named after Jesus' story in Luke 18 about the prayers of the Pharisee and the Publican. Whether they themselves are humble or self-righteous, Hale's latter-day Publicans scorn what they regard as the self-righteousness and hypocrisy of churchgoers. Oddly, many complain about the fact that Christians drink. Other categories...
...result, it often seems as if, to the press, good news is no news. When criticized on this ground, the press becomes fervently self-righteous about its right and duty to print the unpleasant. The more basic question, given the press's attitude, is how well its total coverage reflects reality: Does it seem to harp on the bad because it does not sufficiently record the good? This is the argument frequently made by businessmen, who are the folks who added boosterism to the English language. David J. Mahoney, board chairman...
...Graham, America's premier evangelist, being born again is not some vague spiritual high but a personal commitment with a very specific doctrinal content. The starting point is sin, which, in Graham's view, saturates every individual and humanity in general. He argues that God, the righteous "moral judge of the entire universe," requires a penalty for sin, and that penalty was paid for all time by the death of God's son, Jesus Christ, on the Cross. "When Christ atoned for sin, He stood in the place of guilty men and women," Graham writes...
...real "abomination" is Anita Bryant's self-righteous bigotry...